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Love to Hear From Friends

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Helen holding Keeping Faith
Friend Helen & Keeping Faith

I am blessed to have met people from all over the world, and many I continue to correspond with on a regular basis. I love hearing from them in emails or on Facebook. Somehow, just hearing from them brings back the memories of the trip where we met, and I am able to re-live that experience and the mutual fun times. Of course, it is also nice when they send me a photo, holding a copy of my book. Not only is it great to know the book is in a faraway place, but that my friend has read it and shared that experience as well. [Read more…] about Love to Hear From Friends

Keeping Faith: Chapter 2 Part VI

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Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 10)

Chapter 2, Part VI

Cindy Bradford
The weeks raced into December and dread crept into Sue. She had found the holidays almost unbearable since her parents’ deaths and now Patrick would be leaving for two weeks.

But there was no ignoring the time of year. The town was dressed for the holidays with cheerful Salvation Army volunteers at the four corners of the main shopping area tolling their bells and wishing the generous a Merry Christmas. A life-size nativity scene sprawled across the side lawn of the First Baptist Church. Bales of hay were scattered strategically along the outer edges so believers could sit and watch a brief enactment of the Christmas story every Friday and Saturday night. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Chapter 2 Part VI

It’s Only a Book When You Finish

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My virtual book tour will start in a week, so I have been doing some front work for it, answering all sorts of questions. One is “when did I start writing?”

I don’t ever remember not writing. When I was just a little kid I would write stories on the leftover typing paper around the house—when I wasn’t making cigarettes with the paper (I got caught early on lighting one so it was back to story writing). All during junior high and high school I wrote poetry and other miscellaneous stories, and then in college I worked for a nearby newspaper and college newspaper as well at the university public relations office. [Read more…] about It’s Only a Book When You Finish

Keeping Faith: Chapter 2 Part V

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Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 9)

Chapter 2, Part V

Cindy Bradford
Though usually a second-level sport, this basketball season even the visitor bleachers were packed. Some of the overflow hometown backers were forced to sit across the gym, just to gain a seat. Students had to be posted to help reserve the front rows behind the clock keepers for the university recruiters. And the crowd was getting there earlier and earlier. Concession sales were up for the first time in four years because the Cherokee Indian basketball team had the town in a frenzy and Patrick was having his best season yet. If next year was anything like this, he knew he might have a shot at going to a powerhouse university. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Chapter 2 Part V